The effect of tunnel placement on bone-tendon healing in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in a goat model

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1522-1530

  Ekdahl, Max ^a   Nozaki, Masahiro ^a   Ferretti, Mario ^a   Tsai, Andrew ^b   Smolinski, Patrick ^b   Fu, Freddie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); Bone tendon healing; Graft; Tunnel placement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR; FRACTURE HEALING; GOAT; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINEMATICS; KNEE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCLAST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON GRAFT; TIBIA; TUNNEL PLACEMENT; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BONE PATELLAR TENDON BONE GRAFT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TENDON; TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; BONE-PATELLAR TENDON-BONE GRAFT; GOATS; KNEE JOINT; MODELS, ANIMAL; TENDONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70449711672     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546509332503     Document Type: Article

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